Vocabulary
Land capable of producing a large number of crops.
What is Fertile?
Mesopotamia was located between which two rivers?
First set of written laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi.
First form of writing.
What is the cuneiform?
A place of worship with a temple of the top.
What is a Ziggurat?
An amount that is left over after a need has been met.
What is a surplus?
Mesopotamia was located in these modern countries.
What are Iraq, Kuwait, and Syria.
Each city-state was run by this person.
Who was a king?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Greek for "land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
A belief in more than one god.
What is Polytheism?
Mesopotamia was formed in this "crescent".
What is the Fertile Crescent.
Made up the top of the social classes.
Who is the king and royal family.
Created this system of telling time still used today.
River running through Western Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River.
A long poem that records the deeds of a hero.
What is an epic?
The first civilization to use this item to buy goods.
What is money?
Made up the bottom of the social pyramid.
Who were slaves?
The Akkadian Empire.
River running through Eastern Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
A city that governs itself its surrounding territory.
A groups of merchants traveling together.
What is a caravan?
Who was the middle class?
Created this to help move large quantities of goods.
What is the wheeled cart?
Set of laws that stated "an eye for an eye."